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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Two women stroll by a line of horse-drawn carriages, New York, 1899.

Originally Posted by oldE

I was ok with the sharpness and depth of field, what ruined it for me were the wheel spokes and lack of axles, identical trim on the carriages and no way to hitch up a horse.
If I was a computer, I'd disavow making that too.

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Les

Very good catch. As Glenn stated, most "negatives" back then were huge glass plates with very fine grain, so resolution was actually impressively high. But no amount of resolution is going to have converted those to stub axles. I was curious so did some searches to see if there were any carriages that didn't have full axles and didn't see any.

It's possible that this is a real photo that has been retouched by someone before being published, and some folks when they "touch up" stuff, will do things like "remove trash" or whatever. So it's possible that someone made some big crazy changes (if it's not just wholly fake)